redirect() with Slim 3.0

This is great to know Antonio, seriously... thank you so much for sharing this.

No problem. It was a struggle. Take a look at my post in the previous video, as well. I'm a newb, so figuring this stuff out proves that anyone can do it. I can't get my local server to send out an email in the coming lessons. I'm using Apache 2.4 on a Windows 10 laptop. Also, using Slim 3.0 and PHP 7. I keep getting a Slim Error, with no specifics other than 500. I've set my php.ini sendmail_from value, etc., etc. I just don't know enough to troubleshoot this.

This is a link to my comment in the previous lesson: https://teamtreehouse.com/community/slim-30-code-for-this-lesson

I'm still pretty new with PHP myself... normally focus on Rails and I can't say I'd be much help on Windows setup as a Mac user. What you've done definitely helps many of us though. Mail has always been weird for me with PHP. Are you using SwiftMailer?

I am. It must be something to do with my php.ini or Apache settings. I get a "Slim Error" but I don't think the error has to do with my code, as it's SwiftMailer code that we're using rather than Slim 3.0 to set up our mail. Not sure what the problem is.

I've debugged up to the $result = $mailer->send($message); It's definitely that line that triggers the error. My form input values are all properly assigned to their appropriate variables as verified by 'var_dumping' each of them.

I'll try to get something setup using Slim 3.0 and see what kind of errors I come across.

I came across this awesome/useful Swiftmailer Logger plugin at http://swiftmailer.org/docs/plugins.html The logger gave me this when I sent a mail: ++Starting Swift_SmtpTransport

I assume that this is in fact not an error at all. It's working, but my localhost configs must not be set correctly. Here is how to make use of this plugin:

<?php
// Tells us how to send the email
// I'm using a local Apache 2.4 server run with PHP 7. I'm also using Slim 3.0.
// I'm using a free mailing service called Mailgun because Apache apparently
// can't send mail on its own. The code, excluding the logger setup, is recommended
// by Mailgun, and is found in their blog.
// Notice that you can chain, just like in jQuery.
  $transport = Swift_SmtpTransport::newInstance('smtp.mailgun.org', 25)
    ->setUsername('postmaster@my_domain')
    ->setPassword('my_password')
    ;

  // Create the Mailer using your created Transport
  $mailer = Swift_Mailer::newInstance($transport);
  $logger = new \Swift_Plugins_Loggers_EchoLogger();
  $mailer->registerPlugin(new \Swift_Plugins_LoggerPlugin($logger));

  $message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
    ->setSubject('Email From Our Website')
    ->setFrom(array(
    $cleanEmail => $cleanName
  ))
    ->setTo(array('me@me.com'))
    ->setBody($cleanMsg);
  if(!$mailer->send($message, $errors)) {
    echo "Error: " . $logger->dump();
  } else {
    $result = $mailer->send($message);
  }
?>

I think you're probably right on in terms of it just being a local configuration issue, but this is really helpful.

Got it to work! Mailgun apparently has issues with port 25. Changed it to port 587, as recommended by Mailgun, and I can now successfully send mail from my local server with the code above! Phew. That took 3 days.

3 days though... not so bad for some new things. Well done!

Antonio - I have a related question about redirects from later in the videos when we're trying to redirect after we've set up our mail... can you have a look?

https://teamtreehouse.com/community/redirect-after-email-slim-3